Re: [PATCH] fix typo/thinko in get_random_bytes()

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On 11/16/2011 10:50 AM, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > If there is an architecture-specific random number generator we use
> > it to acquire randomness one "long" at a time. We should put these
> > random words into consecutive words in the result buffer - not just
> > overwrite the first word again and again.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ouch.  Good catch.  This, I guess, is the downside of doing this only on
> the kernel paths... made this kind of errors harder to catch.
> 
> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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